Weird Studies
Professor Phil Ford and writer J. F. Martel host a series of conversations on art and philosophy, dwelling on ideas that are hard to think and art that opens up rifts in what we are pleased to call "reality."
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Episode 41: On Speculative Fiction, with Matt C...
JF and Phil talk fantasy and horror with writer and editor Matt Cardin.
59 min
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Episode 40: On Jonathan Glazer's 'Under the Skin'
Phil and JF discuss the recent masterwork of weird cinema starring Scarlett Johansson.
77 min
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Episode 39: The Challenge of the Paranormal, wi...
JF and Phil discuss the paranormal with the esteemed professor and philosophy and religious thought, Jeffrey J. Kripal.
62 min
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Episode 38: Style as Analysis
Phil and JF discuss a recently published article of Phil's authorship on how to write about music.
70 min
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Episode 37: Entities, with Stuart Davis
JF and Phil discuss nonhuman beings in an aesthetic universe with filmmaker, musician and mystic Stuart Evan Davis.
74 min
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Christmas Bonus: Hyperstition Addendum
The final segment of our conversation on hyperstition, i.e., fiction that turns real.
24 min
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Episode 36: On Hyperstition
JF and Phil talk hyperstitions, entities born in the realm of fantasy that slowly become denizens of the real.
73 min
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Episode 35: Whirl Without End: On M.C. Richards...
Phil and JF discuss the first chapter of "Centering," M.C. Richard's penetrating essay on the artistic process.
61 min
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Episode 34: The Weird Realism of Robert Aickman
JF and Phil discuss Robert Aickman's masterwork of weird fiction, "The Hospice," from his 1975 collection "Cold Hand in Mine."
55 min
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Episode 33: The Fine Art of Changing the Subjec...
JF and Phil discuss the profound effects of Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" (the urinal) on the development of the arts since 1917.
59 min
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Episode 32: Orbis Tertius: Borges on Magic, Con...
Phil and JF discuss the classic tale, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius," by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
70 min
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Episode 31: Scarcely Human at All: On Glenn Gou...
JF and Phil discuss the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould's prophetic essay, "The Prospects of Recording."
76 min
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Episode 30: On Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut'
Phil and JF discuss Stanley Kubrick's final masterpiece.
66 min
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Episode 29: On Lovecraft
Phil and JF try to distill the essence of H. P. Lovecraft's monumental work.
75 min
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Episode 28: Weird Music, Part Two
The search for the music of the weird continues with a discussion on Bob Dylan and Franz Liszt.
64 min
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Episode 27: Weird Music, Part One
Phil and JF discuss two powerful pieces of music: Ligeti's Musica Ricercata, second movement, and the opening music to Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, composed by Howard Shore and featuring Ornette Coleman.
78 min
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Episode 26: Living in a Glass Age, with Michael...
JF and Phil talk to artist and thinker Michael Garfield about his idea that we are living in the final days of the Age of Glass.
78 min
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Episode 25: David Cronenberg's 'Naked Lunch'
Phil and JF discuss David Cronenberg's 1991 film, "Naked Lunch," an adaptation of William S. Burroughs' hallucinatory classic.
80 min
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Episode 24: The Charlatan and the Magus, with L...
Phil and JF discuss magic with occult thinker and practicing magician Lionel Snell, also known as Ramsey Dukes.
58 min
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Episode 23: On Presence
Phil and JF meet in person to discuss the mysteries of presence and event.
103 min
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Episode 22: Divining the World with Joshua Ramey
Phil and JF talk with American philosopher Joshua Ramey about his work on chance, contingency, and divination.
69 min
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Episode 21: The Trash Stratum - Part 2
Phil and JF continue to muse on Philip K. Dick's line, "the symbols of the divine initially show up at the trash stratum."
65 min
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Episode 20: The Trash Stratum - Part 1
Phil and JF muse on Philip K. Dick's line, "the symbols of the divine initially show up at the trash stratum."
75 min
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Episode 19: Intermezzo
A discussion on the past and future of the podcast, and the nature of the conversation unfolding therein.
68 min
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Episode 18: Does 'Consciousness' Exist? - Part Two
Phil and JF continue (begin?) their discussion of William James's essay "Does Consciousness Exist"?
61 min